Re: [Tutor] problem resulting from installing 3.0

2007-09-02 Thread Dick Moores
At 08:17 AM 9/2/2007, Kent Johnson wrote: >Dick Moores wrote: >> >>>- add a .pth file to site-packages/ that contains the path to the >>>dir you want to add to sys.path >>I tried this with no PYTHONPATH. I put pointers.pth in >>site-packages\ with the single line, E:\PythonWork\Functions\ . >>Fu

Re: [Tutor] problem resulting from installing 3.0

2007-09-02 Thread Kent Johnson
Dick Moores wrote: > Thanks, Kent. > > At 05:40 AM 9/2/2007, Kent Johnson wrote: >> There are quite a few ways to get a module into the search path, >> modifying PYTHONPATH is just one way. Some others: >> - create a site-packages/ dir in the Python lib dir. Put your >> modules and packages ther

Re: [Tutor] problem resulting from installing 3.0

2007-09-02 Thread Dick Moores
Thanks, Kent. At 05:40 AM 9/2/2007, Kent Johnson wrote: >There are quite a few ways to get a module into the search path, >modifying PYTHONPATH is just one way. Some others: >- create a site-packages/ dir in the Python lib dir. Put your >modules and packages there and they will be found by Pytho

Re: [Tutor] problem resulting from installing 3.0

2007-09-02 Thread Alan Gauld
"Kent Johnson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote > PYTHONPATH is for your own customizations of sys.path, it is not the > entirety of sys.path. AFAIK you don't have to define it at all if > you > don't want to use it. All true. The point of PYTHONPATH is that you could have several users all running pyt

Re: [Tutor] problem resulting from installing 3.0

2007-09-02 Thread Kent Johnson
Dick Moores wrote: > At 01:08 AM 9/1/2007, Alan Gauld wrote: > >> "Dick Moores" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote >> >> > > > And another question is, exactly what should go into PYTHONPATH? >> > >> > >Its what goes into sys.path. PYTHONPATH is for your own customizations of sys.path, it is not the enti

Re: [Tutor] problem resulting from installing 3.0

2007-09-02 Thread Dick Moores
At 01:08 AM 9/1/2007, Alan Gauld wrote: "Dick Moores" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote > > > And another question is, exactly what should go into PYTHONPATH? > > >Its what goes into sys.path. I've found that whether I'm using Command Prompt, IDLE, or Ulipad, that they add a lot to sys.path. When PYTHONP

Re: [Tutor] problem resulting from installing 3.0

2007-09-01 Thread Alan Gauld
"Dick Moores" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote > > > And another question is, exactly what should go into PYTHONPATH? > > >Its what goes into sys.path. > > >In other words its where your local modules are stored. > >Much more flexible. I'm a big fan of environment variables! > > I don't think I follow y

Re: [Tutor] problem resulting from installing 3.0

2007-08-31 Thread Dick Moores
At 05:25 PM 8/31/2007, Kent Johnson wrote: >Dick Moores wrote: >>XP, Python 2.5.1 >>I installed 3.0 alpha out of curiosity in a separate folder from >>2.5.1. Then I found that both 2.5.1's IDLE and my main Python >>editor Ulipad would no longer open. My first idea was that the >>installation of

Re: [Tutor] problem resulting from installing 3.0

2007-08-31 Thread Dick Moores
At 04:20 PM 8/31/2007, you wrote: >"Dick Moores" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote > > > and ulipad.pyw. How can I get back to where I was before, without > > that annoying console opening? > >Sorry, no idea - thats why I never install alpha software! :-) > > > PYTHONPATH: > > E:\Python25\;E:\PythonWork\;

Re: [Tutor] problem resulting from installing 3.0

2007-08-31 Thread Kent Johnson
Dick Moores wrote: > XP, Python 2.5.1 > > I installed 3.0 alpha out of curiosity in a separate folder from > 2.5.1. Then I found that both 2.5.1's IDLE and my main Python editor > Ulipad would no longer open. My first idea was that the installation > of 3.0 somehow changed my path. But it didn'

Re: [Tutor] problem resulting from installing 3.0

2007-08-31 Thread Alan Gauld
"Dick Moores" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote > and ulipad.pyw. How can I get back to where I was before, without > that annoying console opening? Sorry, no idea - thats why I never install alpha software! :-) > PYTHONPATH: > E:\Python25\;E:\PythonWork\;E:\Programs\Ulipad3.7\ > > And another question